Early in the process, pre-grant

• Serve as a resource during grant discovery
• Provide IT consulting
• Assist in IT impact assessment
• Oversee integration into existing infrastructure
• Explore cost reduction and/or increased functionality through synergy
• Serve as external IT interface coordination resource
• Administer internal research IT grants for discovery assistance

Facilities setup and configuration

• Manage the coordination of IT resources
• Assist in software acquisition, licensing, porting, integration
• Serve as IT interface to physical renovations
• Administer hiring and/or training of IT cognizant individuals
• Facilitate establishment of collaborative interfaces
• Provide system setup, integration and testing

Production environment

• Full service systems management
• Ongoing software consulting, porting
• Integration and collaboration support
• IT human resource management
• Administer regular IT re-assessment and adjustment

Decommissioning

• Re-application of human resources
• Sunset systems, software, IT infrastructure
• Post-grant support evaluation
• Recycling of central research IT resources into discovery of other grants